Supreme Court of India
Dinesh Kumar Kalidas Patel v. The State of Gujarat
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the Sessions Court is not justified in convicting the appellant under Section 201 of the IPC and the High Court maintaining the same.
Judgment, page 12
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.201 – Whether conviction under s.201 could be maintained while acquitting the accused of main offence – Held: char ge under s.201 can be independently laid and conviction maintained also, in case the prosecution is able to establish that an offe nce had been committed, the person charged with the offence had the know ledge or the reason to believe that the offence had been com mitted, the said person has caused disappearance of evidence and such a ct of disappearance has been done with the intention of s creening the offender from legal punishment – Mere suspicion is no t
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